Amusing op-ed piece from the New York Times. It takes the spin (as I read it) that so many anti-war folks have staked their reputation on there being no WMD in Iraq, that they're deliberately downplaying the gallon of Sarin that was detonated a few days ago. ] You never saw such a rush to dismiss this as not news. U.N. ] weapons inspectors whose reputations rest on denial of Saddam's ] W.M.D. pooh-poohed the report. . . . ] In this rush to misjudgment, we can see an example of the "Four ] Noes" that have become the defeatists' platform. ] The first "no" is no stockpiles of W.M.D., used to justify the ] war, were found. With the qualifier "so far" left out, the ] absence of evidence is taken to be evidence of absence. Heh. Sarin? What Sarin? |